#shorts On 1/17/2023, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once again dodged questions on the Biden documents scandal. Reporters repeatedly grilled Karine Jean-Pierre about the searches for classified documents after she was caught lying. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre, “I just wanted to ask you about something you said last week. Last week, you were pretty insistent that you believed the President’s attorneys did the right thing. Do you still believe that?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, they did the right thing when it comes to making sure that when the documents were found, they handed it over to the Archivist …

Reporter: But the reason I ask is — is that what we now know — and the President’s Counsel’s statement, the President’s personal lawyer’s statement shed a bit more light on this, but they raised more questions. Namely, the first call that the President’s personal attorneys made on November 2nd was not to the FBI that they had found what we now know were top-secret documents out in the open. The first call was to officials here at this White House in the West Wing. How is that the right thing?

Isn’t it the right thing, when you see some- — if you’re a lawyer and your — you don’t have a security clearance and you see a classified document, shouldn’t you call the Justice Department’s National Security office right away?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Again, I’m going to refer you to the White House Counsel’s Office. That is something for them to answer …

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/jGLohA0IKBA
Q: right thing? the first call was not to DOJ but to White House